A-1's January Newsletter
January Events At A Glance:
January 4– Begin reading a biography of a famous American.
January 18 – No school
January 21 – End of the second grading period
January 22 – No school for students
January 25 – Bring the biography and worksheet to school.
February 1 – Return the Home Reading Chart and the Home Math Chart to school.
Special Topics:
Our Home Reading program continues. Students should select a book that passes the 5-finger test. They read at home for 15 minutes and color in one section of the January Home Reading Chart. The goal is to read at least 15 minutes a night for 15 nights in January. Please color only one section a night even if more time is spent reading. Return the colored picture by February 1. Our goal is to improve our reading and writing fluency.
A biography of a famous American (exclusive of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington) will be the next genre of books on which we will report. A worksheet is attached on which students should record information about the person. The completed worksheet should be returned to school on January 25. The minutes reading the biography may be recorded on the Home Reading Chart.
Our Social Studies topics this month will be on Economics and the lives of differing people. We will compare and contrast the life of the Inuit (people of the Arctic) and the Masai (people of Africa). Some key vocabulary words are needs, wants, goods, services, factory, trade, shelters, transportation, occupations, communication, and cultural heritage.
Math concepts for the month are the following.
- Visualizing, retelling, and modeling the action of a variety of addition and subtraction situations
- Using standard notation (+, −, =) to represent a variety of addition and subtraction situations and considering the relationship between addition and subtraction
- Developing fluency with addition (combinations to 10 + 10) and subtraction
- Skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s and identifying patterns in the multiples
- Developing strategies for solving a variety of addition and subtraction story problems and recording thinking.
- Using clocks as tools for keeping track of and measuring time
- Naming, notating, and telling time to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour on digital and analog clocks
- Determining the number of minutes in hours, half hours, and quarter hours
Any student with a July birthday may declare a January date as his/her un-birthday. We will celebrate the half year since we won’t be in school in July!
Students need to dress warmly for winter recesses. Please label all winter clothing so any lost items can be returned.
For questions regarding this page, please contact Mrs. Simpson
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